Is there a special way I should be pouring my Guinness?

[progmom]

That thingymabobber in the bottle makes me think maybe I am doing it wrong. :shrug:

[asthmaticeog]

1. You need to pour it

into MY glass. :toast:

[progmom]

2. yes, but HOW?

:shrug:

[asthmaticeog]

10. QUICKLY!

[JAbuchan08]

3. Beat me to it

I was going to skip the glass part.

[asthmaticeog]

9. But the glass is the best part!

I don't know WHY nobody else ever eats theirs...

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. you want to tilt the glass like you are filling it from a tap

[jpgray]

5. Do you have a nitro bottle, a regular bottle, a nitro can?

Is it Canadian brewed Guinness, imported Guinness, extra stout Guinness?

[progmom]

8. do you really need me to go downstairs and look?

it had a thingymabobber in it. and it was a bottle. does that answer anything?

[merh]

14. Is it a thingymabobber or a thingamabop or a whichamacallit?

:freak: You need to be more specific, please. :silly:

[soothsayer]

25. It's called a "rocket widget" (the one in the bottle is). Truly!

Went to a Guinness True Believers seminar. Ahhhhhh, that was a good time!

[merh]

29. And it's purpose is?

Teach us the fine art of Guinnes, please. :-)

:hi:

[jpgray]

15. Okay

You're going to have to burn three growlers of corn-brewed Budweiser to appease the beer demons. In all seriousness, the nitro cans are way better than the nitro bottles (which I assume is what you have). I've gotten very thin and watery mouthfeel from the nitro bottles, which are ostensibly designed to be drunk from the bottle and not poured at all. Either way they taste not so great, and if you decide not to pour, it ruins a lot of that special Guinness cachet. But anyway our domestic versions are way dumbed down from what you get in the UK--my favorite readily available Guinness is the no-frills bottled Extra Stout. But all my beer snob friends are not fans of the nitro bottles--if you go nitro, try the cans and see if you like them better. They're at least meant to be poured.

[progmom]

16. I usually get the cans

but they were out of them last time i went shopping. :shrug:

[jpgray]

17. Then my short answer is no

Same ol' beer-pouring rules apply: pour into a tilted glass and straighten as you go. If you don't like the size of the head you get, you can do a more agitated pour. But as far as I know there's no special trick to it.

[usedtobesick]

6. slowly against the side like a normal beer

just slower to keep the head from stealing all the beer.

[Floogeldy]

7. Yes

Down your gullet; and quickly! ;)

[tridim]

11. Pour it..

down the drain. That crap is burnt! :duck: ;)

[progmom]

13. hey - you don't have to like it

more for me! :hi:

[Telly Savalas]

12. I thought Guiness with the thingymabobber is supposed to be drunk...

from the bottle.

I'm pretty sure it says so on the bottle. I have one left in the fridge, but that's a good 5 meters from here and I'm too lazy to walk that far right now.

[progmom]

18. oh.

really?

whoops.

[Telly Savalas]

19. I went and checked...

it does say "drink straight from the bottle" on it.

Since I had to go to all that effort to check, I decided to reward myself by opening it. And in your honor I'm having some dark chocolate to go along with the beer.

[progmom]

20. they go well together, don't they?

:hi:

[benburch]

21. We interrupt this thread...

[Anarcho-Socialist]

22. No!

:)

[progmom]

23. you, i trust

:hi:

[Anarcho-Socialist]

24. Hi!

:hi:

[enigmatic]

26. Yes

Into my mouth:)

[PittPoliSci]

27. NO NO NO!!!

Drink it from the bottle!!! Keep it cold! The thingy in there is what makes it stay the way it is in the bottle.

Too drunk to really explain! Just trust me on this one! I have had many a Guinness in my day!:beer: :pals: :hi:

[uppityperson]

28. Into a glass at my house of course

[GoddessOfGuinness]

30. You're supposed to drink right from the "thingymabobber" bottles

Love the terminology! :D

I like the cans better myself, and I pour those gently along the side of the glass until I get to the spot where I'd like the head to rise from.

I'm not sure what it is about the bottles...it seemed kind of watery when I tried it; but maybe it was because I drank it as they recommended instead of pouring it. Maybe that'd help...

[progmom]

31. dammit.

i've been doing it wrong. x(

now i want to go drink one the right way. :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

37. Sounds like a good idea!

Maybe you should have several, so you can compare various pouring techniques. Maybe you could even get a research grant! :D

[no name no slogan]

32. back in the day, i used to do shamrocks on the heads

when i was pouring at the pub, i used to do the little shamrock on the head for certain special customers. kind of like this, but better:


those were the days...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

33. Like this one?

[no name no slogan]

34. yes, that's MUCH better!

i wasn't allowed to drink on the job, so sadly mine always turned out fairly straight :goofy:

sometimes, people would order a Guinness with a shot of blackcurrant cordial in it, so the head would come out purple. when you did a shamrock on one of those, the shamrock outline would turn out green.

that was a very cool thing to see! :hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

35. Hmm...

I'm trying to imagine the taste of blackcurrant cordial mixed with Guinness...

[Beware the Beast Man]

36. Down my gullet.

[Beer Snob-50]

38. just as long as it goes down your throat

and not wasted on your lap or floor.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

39. Downward

[seemunkee]

40. For black and tans get one of these

http://www.beercollections.com/Openers/Bottle-Openers.htm